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The Hope Seed Project and RootSea LLC present a collaborative event with Dagmar Sabine Luenser and MaRiza Noyama-Zee Healing Retreat and Solstice Celebration 2017 Honoring the Height of Light for Peace Creation To benefit our Mama Earth and All her Inhabitants ~ Friday June 23rd to Sunday June 25th Held at Buena Vista Lavender Farm…

How do we hold The power We’ve been given? How tightly Or softly Do we grasp Our ability to stand above Or separate ourSelves from anOther? How easily Do we give Our own power Away? How on Earth Do we call ourSelves Back? How do we see The world? And how Do we allow ourSelves…

This article, shared with me by a beloved friend, offers a very astute and much needed perspective on how the tidying wave that is sweeping across the world is affected by class advantages inherent in the desire to “tidy”. I must begin by stating that Marie Kondo’s book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, is a family favorite and…

Where is my power? Where has it gone? Underground, around the corner, into the arms of another? Being intimately linked to someone instantly turns them, perhaps unfairly, into a playing field for my deepest insecurities. I want the other to affirm my love worthiness, because on a deep level of self I do not…

Seven years ago I visited the hills of North Carolina and met a beautiful crystal, eagle-headed stone. Found at my feet on a woodland path, I held this stone and connected deeply, asking what this ancient intelligence had to share with me. What it said was this, “We need to learn to be native to this…

Once upon a time, everything that people had was made either by hand or by Mother Nature. When people did endeavor to make something, oh what an endeavor it was! Say you wanted a tortilla for a nice taco dinner: the journey would begin with nurturing a plant, coaxing it to grow, harvesting its fruit…

Spirit released Separated … reMembering the connections … There is healing to be found in the space between . . . The stone Open and letting go . . . The soul breaking free from form then Free from Source and back again Forgetting . . . Heart exploding and scar tissue learning to hide…

Sometimes at the bottom of the wave we can’t see the Light we can’t even conjure a memory of the Light and yet the Light is always there waiting for us at the surface of the water and we must trust that we will see it again All of Life’s transitions are this way we…

The work that I offer people moves through three layers of being, from most tangible to most subtle. And I would like to take a moment to discuss the relationship between the physical and energetic realities that we experience and how these relate to each other and to my work. We could start with an…

Here I sit, almost 16 months after the birth of my child, Ivan. (To read the back story of how Ivan came into my awareness and then into my life, visit the “About Riza” page.) The process of becoming a mother has been one full of discovery, challenges, surprises, and new-found commitment. Time and my…